Bad Münder. Young architects not older than
45 years of age can enter projects that have
already been carried out for the AR Award for
Emerging Architecture.


With the installation of planted beams,
the architect quite intentionally makes a cut
between the buildings and thus virtually turns
stereotyped Tokyo upside down.
Architect: Taketo Shimohigoshi/ AAE Tokyo.
Photo/Copyright: Taketo Shimohigoshi /AAE Tokyo

The international magazine Architectural Review
presented the coveted award for the ninth time in
succession. Entries from more than 50 countries
covered a wide range of design activities from interior
design, landscape projects and small pavilions to
conversions of existing buildings. The projects were
judged by a six-strong jury of internationally
acclaimed architects, including Shirley Blumberg
(KPMB, Toronto), Shuhei Endo (Osaka) as well
as Jo Nero (Johannesburg). The members of the
jury selected three winners. A further six projects
were highly commended. Nine projects were
commended and six received honourable mentions.
Important criteria for the jury included sensitivity
with regard to location and context, awareness of
ecological issues, the discerning use of materials,
as well as creativity while using space and light.

Winners from Japan, Spain and Germany/Chile
Taketo Shimohigoshi / AAE from Tokyo appealed
to the jury with a vegetation installation at the
FLEG Daikanyama Showroom in Tokyo, Japan.
The intelligently "planted beams" are a kind of
modern hanging gardens from Antiquity, re-
envisaged for chaotic Tokyo of the New Age.
Once again, this project shows the potential of
this Award for repeatedly discovering unusual
architecture.

Another award-winner was Ecosistema Urbano
Arquitectos for the EcoBoulevard of Vallecas,
Madrid, Spain. This radical vision of "air trees"
in a suburb of Madrid, which does not only
succeed in reducing the dry heat, but also
functions as a social meeting place, is marked
by a high degree of awareness of ecological
responsibility.

It is really quite a simple idea: these provisional
mini-forests create public places with a well-
tempered environment until they can be replaced
by natural tree growth. Architects: Ecosistema
Urbano Arquitectos, Madrid, Spain.
Photo/Copyright: Roland Halbe

The third award-winning project was the "Wall House"
by the German-Chilean architectural team of Marc
Frohn and Mario Rojas Toledo (FAR frohn&rojas -
Cologne::Santiago de Chile::Ciudad de México).
The judges got especially convinced by the creative
concept of this house built in Santiago de Chile.
The architects experiment with different materials to
create an inventive, low budget prototype dwelling.

The walls of this low budget dwelling comprise a
series of overlapping layers. Yet, every layer has
its own properties and contributes to the unique
appearance of this house. Architects: FAR
frohn&rojas, Cologne /Santiago de Chile.
Photo/Copyright: Cristobal Palma

From Hanover via Berlin and Cologne to Stuttgart:
Exhibition itinerary
Wilkhahn is presenting the exhibition together with
the Landesverbände des Bundes Deutscher Architekten
(BDA, Regional Associations of the Federation of
German Architects) and other closely associated
institutions at the following venues

11.6. - 27.6. Bauverwaltung Hannover
Rudolf-Hillebrecht Platz 1
1st floor
Mo-Fri, 8 am - 6 pm

25.7. - 5.9. Deutsches Architektur Zentrum
(Glashaus) Berlin-Mitte,
Köpenicker Str. 48/49
Mo-Fri, 9 am - 7 pm

10.9. - 26.9.  Kap Forum Cologne
Agrippinawerft 28
Mo-Thurs, 10am - 6pm
Fri, 10 am - 4 pm 

16.9. - 10.10. WECHSELRAUM Stuttgart
Zeppelin Carré, Friedrichstr. 5
Tues-Fri, 10 am - 1.30 pm and 3 pm - 8 pm
3 October (public holiday): 11 am - 5 pm

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